In today's issue:

Filtered from 4,112 items published across 319 sources in the last 24 hours.

Guinness's single-direction wording leaves the two-way record where it was. Koenigsegg says its Jesko Absolut can theoretically do a two-way 500 km/h run, but it has never attempted one. Read Electrek's full story.

Tesla Will Wind Down Cybertruck Production in Texas Around Mid-2027, and Raised Prices the Same Day: Elon Musk posted on X that "Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production." It is not clear whether production moves to another plant or stops altogether, since Giga Texas is the only factory that builds it, per Paul Tan. The same day, Tesla stopped taking orders for the base Dual-Motor AWD and raised the Premium to $92,490 and the Cyberbeast to $102,490, per InsideEVs. Kelley Blue Book estimates 11,586 U.S. sales in the first nine months, down 28%, per Motor1. Two weeks ago Tesla canceled the Cybertruck for Australia and New Zealand. #analyst

Mercedes Says Its Level 3 System Came Too Early, and the New S-Class Ships Without It: Drive Pilot was the first Level 3 system available in the U.S., but it worked only up to about 40 mph, and the refreshed S-Class launched this year without it, per Road & Track. "Sometimes if you are too early, then you see that you have to work on what the customer really wants," CTO Jörg Burzer told Road & Track. Mercedes is putting its effort into a Level 2 system that can change lanes, make turns and respond to traffic lights, with the driver still responsible, and plans to eventually skip Level 3 for Level 4, per Motor1. #analyst

Mitsubishi Now Expects Profit to Fall Because Hormuz Stayed Shut, While the New Pajero Has 9,000 Orders: It now expects operating profit to fall 7.3% this fiscal year after forecasting 19% growth in August, and sees North American deliveries down 7% to 154,000, per Automotive News. "Our initial plan assumed that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen by the end of June," COO Keisuke Kishiura said. The new Pajero already has 9,000 orders against a goal of 10,000 by March, up from the Pajero's 5,500 pre-orders on Oct. 29. #analyst

Audi Is Weighing a $3 Billion Second Phase at Its Planned Georgia Plant: Documents released by the Mid-Georgia Gateway Development Authority show Audi considering another $3 billion and 3,000 workers by 2033, on top of the $4 billion, 4,500-worker Georgia plant Audi announced last month, per Automotive News. Georgia is giving Audi the 1,500-acre site, $458 million in tax incentives and more than $120 million in grants, plus another $430 million for roads, water, utilities and workforce training. Audi declined to comment. The first phase, due in the early 2030s, is set to build 200,000 SUVs a year, and Audi has sought to cut the 15% tariff it pays on EU imports to 7.5%, but the Commerce Department was expected to agree to about 10%, per Just Auto. Tariff relief has reportedly been promised to Audi for the Georgia plant, and would require starting a U.S. plant by the end of next year. #market

The 2027 RAV4 Starts at $32,300 and Adds a Tesla Plug to Every Plug-In Hybrid: That is $400 more than the 2026 hybrid, and the plug-in hybrid starts at $42,100, both before a $1,595 destination fee, per Motor1. Every plug-in hybrid gets a NACS port with DC fast charging and an 11-kW onboard charger, and the Woodland gets new springs and shocks that raise ground clearance to 9.1 inches from 8.1, per Toyota. The plug-in SE has a manufacturer-estimated 52 miles of electric range, per Toyota.

The 2027 Tundra Costs $1,630 More and Gets a $5,880 Trailhunter Package: The refreshed truck starts at $45,085 with destination, $1,630 more than the 2026, and every trim now gets a 14-inch touchscreen, up from 8 inches on base 2026 trucks, per Autoblog. The Old Man Emu-suspended Trailhunter package adds $5,880 to a base SR, per Autoblog, and an SR5 4WD CrewMax with it costs $60,225, well below the $77,595 hybrid TRD Pro, per Hagerty.

GM Patented Launch Control That Watches the Drag Strip's Lights and Launches for You: The system uses the car's cameras to spot the Christmas Tree, predicts the green light and can start preparing the launch before it comes on, per Road & Track. The patent was granted Nov. 3.

A 261-MPG Volkswagen XL1 Is Up for Auction, Estimated at About $140,000: Volkswagen built 250 of the carbon-bodied diesel plug-in hybrid two-seaters, which did 261 mpg on Europe's test cycle and 31 miles on electricity, per InsideEVs. This 2016 car has just over 1,000 miles and is listed on Catawiki in the Netherlands. The XL1 took 12 years to develop under Ferdinand Piëch, chasing a car that burned one liter of fuel per 100 km.

The 2027 Chevy Trax Starts $2,000 Higher, at $25,495: Chevy dropped the base LS and cut five trims to three, so the LT is now the entry point, per Car and Driver.

The Toyota Supra and BMW Z4 Have Sold Out in the U.S.: CarsDirect's inventory data shows no new examples of either left, per Motor1, eight months after Magna Steyr built the last of both in Austria.

EVgo Opened Its First Station Built on Tesla Superchargers: The 12-stall site near downtown Chicago uses Tesla's Magic Dock, so NACS and CCS cars can both plug in, and it is the first of hundreds of Supercharger stalls EVgo plans, mostly at grocery-anchored Regency Centers properties, per InsideEVs. Pricing runs $0.25 to $0.35 per kWh, the same for Tesla and non-Tesla drivers, per Teslarati.

Hyundai Recalled 37,901 Kona Electrics and Veloster Ns Whose Airbags May Not Deploy: The airbag control unit's software can be corrupted if the system reboots while it is writing to memory, which can switch off the airbags and seatbelt pretensioners and light the airbag warning lamp, per Car and Driver. The recall covers 29,058 2019-2023 Kona Electrics and 8,843 2019-2022 Veloster Ns. Hyundai knows of 331 alleged incidents and no crashes or injuries, per Electrek. Dealers will update the software free, owner letters go out Jan. 1, and the NHTSA campaign number is 26V728, per the same report.

Yesterday's picks

Range Rover Is Dropping Its Two Cheapest SUVs, and the Way In Jumps From $49,900 to $83,700: Range Rover's U.S. site lists the Evoque from $49,900, the Velar from $61,600, the Sport from $83,700 and the full-size Range Rover from $113,300. Without the bottom two, the cheapest Range Rover costs $33,800 more, by our arithmetic.

Mercedes Has Reportedly Pushed U.S. GLC Production Back to 2030, Keeping Its Best-Selling Import Under Tariffs: Alabama assembly moves from November 2027 to May 2030, according to two people familiar with the plans, per Automotive News. Mercedes declined to comment. The GLC pays a 15% tariff coming from Germany, and its nearly 54,000 U.S. sales through September are close to a quarter of Mercedes' volume there, excluding vans. AutoForecast's Sam Fiorani says retooling for half a life cycle "doesn't make a lot of sense financially," so the plant would wait for the next generation.

The week in attention

How many separate outlets ran a headline naming each company over the last 7 days, across the 560+ sources we monitor. Press releases and Reddit are excluded, so this counts what got written about, not what got announced.

Schaeffler: 25 outlets this week, about 2 in a median week. Most of it: "Schaeffler to close 5 European plants, cut 3,460 jobs as car demand falters".

Karma: 12 outlets this week, against none in a median week over the previous 9. Most of it: "Four Seats, 1,200 HP, Hybrid Power: The Karma Eximius 1 Is A One-Off Super Sedan".

Alpina: 14 outlets this week, about 2 in a median week. Most of it: "BMW Just Went 186 MPH In The New Alpina 7 Series".

Quieter than usual: Geely Holding (40 outlets against about 69), Aston Martin (15 outlets against about 25).

Most covered overall: Toyota Motor, Ford Motor, Volkswagen Group.

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Worth a listen

One episode from Car Curious, our sister car-podcast platform, picked out of everything the shows published in the last day.

445: Two Italian Rarities You Rarely See | OSCA & Cizeta V16T (The Collector Car Podcast, also at thecollectorcarpodcast.com): Greg Stanley digs into two Italian oddities: the Cizeta V16T, whose V16 sits transversely behind the driver, and an OSCA prototype that began life as a Fiat 1500 coupe and is the only one built with a roof.

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